Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-11-22
TIE KING OF THE WEST.
Another Dividend-Payer Promised Us
Next Year-A Mine that Must Have
Hslf.a. Million Dollars Worth Of Ore
In Sight.

prospector and miner, is in from
Smoky, to lay in his winter supplies.
AS is well-known, Mr.. Friend is in.
terested in claim adjoining the
King of the West, aud as he is closely
watching developments he is thor.
oughly informed. He is also proba.
bly, more reliable than one Of the
owners would be, as the latter might
deceive themselves
He states that the King Of the
West is probably as we'll opened a
mine as there is in Idaho, and it is as
we'll conducted as any. Everything
goes like clock. work, every man
knowing just what to do aud when to
do it. 1t is now partly opened to \
depth OF about 400 feet from the sur
face, but only the upper 300 fee. are
ready for Stopping.
The development workings consist
of an incline shaft down about $50
feet, and still being sunk. This in
cline is equipped with skip operated
by a 6rst-class hosting engine on the
tunnel level, and is filed and dumped
automatically.
The incline is connected with the
outer air by a main working tunnel
run on the l50-foot level. Fifty feet
lower level is run; 100 ieet lower,
another level (the OO,foot); and in
a couple Of weeks, when the shaft
shall have attained a depth of 400
feet, another level will be opened.
Here sinking will stop for about one
year, or until next winter, as the mine
will have enough ground opened to
keep the concentrating mill that will
be built next spring going steadily
for two or three years.
In addition to the incline and tun-
mel already mentioned, there are sew
eral open cuts, tunnels, levels, drifts,
raises, and wines in the property.
These positively show that the ore
body is continuous from the mouth OF
the tunnel (westerly) to a point beyond
the face of the longest land easterly)
workings-a distance of over 900
feet. The 200 and 800 foot levels
are connected by raises one on each
side Of the shaft-and in the ground
thus blocked out-which is 200 feet
long by 100 feet hight is estimated
that the ore will net profit Of $75,
900 to $4,000.
There are two well-defned assures
in the King ground, but upon only
one has much work been done. In
fact, the second was accidentally dis
covered in grading for the boiler
house. The one vein worked shows
a very regular opening, eight to IA
feet between walls, with an ore seam
from few inches to four feet in
width! a fair average is undoubtcd-
ly two feet Of ore, Of which the con
centrating ore yields about IS ounces
per ton, and the shipping ore an av
erage of 100 ounces silver and so
per cent. lead per ton. This is Ger.
tainly low enough, as the first class
ore shipped, which was taken from
the surface workings, yielded l59
ounces per ton, as the ore buyers,
books can show. The veins are in
limestone.
Although no ore has been stopped,
nor none extracted that could posi-
bly, be left in place, yet in drifting
aud sinking large quantities had to bt
removed. The greatest portion Of
this is still on the dump, and careful
measurements and sampling show that
there are about $500 tons of it, sam
ping fully 70 ounces per ton.
1t is evident from Mr.. Friends re-
port as we'll as from what is known
here, that the King of the West only
needs concentrating works to become
a steudy dividend payer.
The mine is fully equipped with
cars, tools, etc, as we'll as with first
class boiler, house, machine and black
smith shops, ore house, boarding
house, and bunk houses. 1t is stu
ated in the midst Of the best timhered
aud watered mining district in Idaho,
and is Of easy access.
The KING o: the West group com,
prises three claims and millsite; but
little work has been dono on any but
the King of the West.
The property was sold to a com
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